omamori.

the hello kitty charm i bought from kinkakuji in kyoto last year, and the purple charm i bought from todaiji in osaka this year.

have i mentioned that i mostly have 2-day weeks for school this semester? yes, i only have classes on mondays and thursdays, 9am-3pm straight. there's an intensive module that will be starting the week after the next though, which will go on for 3 weeks, so i'll have classes at night on mondays, wednesdays and fridays, 6.30-9.30pm.

but in the meantime, i feel like i have a lot of free time. which is only an illusion of course; i'm supposed to be doing my readings and...extra reading. which i do...but i'm probably sleeping way more than i'm reading. why am i so tired?!

school has been a little more than overwhelming; i feel so awkward in school. maybe 'cause mostly i'm going around by myself this semester...and it just seems so crowded all the time. claustrophobic. and i don't recognize 80% of the people i see. i guess it's probably because only freshies hang around school so much. which brings me to the point that being Year 3 makes me feel SO OLD.

the school week ended with me sitting at starbucks on thursday afternoon, attempting to read some banking law notes i just printed. and most of the people sitting around me were jc kids, anxiously mugging for their prelims. which made me feel old (again) and reminisce at the same time.

why is it that when we look back we tend to think of the "good old days" even though they probably didn't feel good at all back then? i guess we all forget pain after a while, and choose to remember only the good parts.

listen
i could really use a wish right now